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The last lecture


It has been a while since I last wrote a blog entry. Past month was very hectic and sometimes life moves so fast that it does not give time to look back at it. It is however a silly thing to do as moving fast never allows us to enjoy the life as it goes and some day suddenly we feel that we don't have much time left to live. Anyway this post of mine is not about my bullshit philosophy but about a great book I read recently. The book is called "The Last Lecture". It is written by Dr Randy Pausch. He was a professor in the computer science department in Carnegie Mellon before he died on july25, 2008. He died of pancreatic cancer and this book is about the last lecture he gave after he was diagnosed of this terminal illness and was given just few months to live. It is a book about life from the eyes of a person who had just few days to live among his loved ones. It is about what matters in life and it is like a last letter he wrote for his kids to read it long after he is gone.

Let me brief you about some of the salient features of the book.

Fulfilling your childhood dreams - The author talks about his dreams and how he accomplished them. This is the main focus of his book and It shows the character of a man on deathbed talking about the dreams he had and how he fulfilled them. He talks about his dream quest of flying in zero gravity and being an Disney Imagineer. He talks about how he achieved everything he dreamt of while growing.

Helping others to fulfill their dreams - Being a teacher he talks about how he helped his students who worked with him and how he contributed in some small or big way fullfilling their dreams.

Dreams come to you - This is the crux of the book and his lecture where he said he beleived in the power of the karma and he talks about how working hard and honestly bring your dreams to you. There will always be a "Brick Wall" between you and your dreams and they are meant to test you , your effort is the price which you need to pay for your dream.

In short it was about how he lived his life and presents us as it is to pick some gems out of it. However if you read it carefully it is a voice of a dieing husband and a dieing father engraved in few pages for his kids to know who the person really was long after he is gone. Now as he is no longer there I feel talking to him through his book was a life changing experience..and I have started valuing my gift of life and my dreams a lot more..

Comments

Rinzu said…
we all need dream to live for...
else life would ne meaningless...
nice post...

:)

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